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Plants for Shade

Many plants can tolerate semi-shade but only a few can grow successfully in full shade. Based on our experience and research, the following plants can cope with being planted in full shade locations.

Trees

  • Beech / Fagus sylvatica
  • Holly / Ilex aquifolium
  • Hop hornbeam / Ostrya carpinifolia
  • Moosewood maple / Acer pensylvancicum
  • Mountain ash, Rowan / Sorbus aucuparia
  • Wild service tree / Sorbus torminalis

Shrubs

  • Boxwood / Buxus sempervirens
  • Cherry laurel / Prunus laurocerasus
  • Doghobble / Leucothoe walteri
  • Fortune’s spindle / Euonymus fortunei
  • Greater periwinkle / Vinca major
  • Holly olive / Osmanthus heterophyllus
  • Japanese andromeda / Pieris floribunda
  • Japanese rose / Kerria japonica
  • Japanese Skimmia / Skimmia japonica
  • Japanesespurge / Pachysandra terminalis
  • Laurustinus / Viburnum tinus
  • Lily of the valley / Pieris japonica
  • Oregon grape / Mahonia aquifolium
  • Stinking ash / Ptelea trifoliata
  • Wych alder species / Fothergilla

Climbers

  • Common ivy / Hedera helix
  • Dewberry / Rubus caesius
  • Dutchman’s pipe, Pipevine / Aristolochia macrophylla
  • Fortune’s spindle, Winter creeper / Euonymus fortunei
  • Oriental bittersweet / Celastrus orbiculatus
  • Virginia creeper / Parthenocissus quinquefolia

Conifers

  • English yew / Taxus baccata
  • Western red cedar / Thuja plicata

Many plants can tolerate semi-shade but only a few can grow successfully in full shade. Based on our experience and research, the following plants can cope with being planted in full shade locations.

Trees

  • Beech / Fagus sylvatica
  • Holly / Ilex aquifolium
  • Hop hornbeam / Ostrya carpinifolia
  • Moosewood maple / Acer pensylvancicum
  • Mountain ash, Rowan / Sorbus aucuparia
  • Wild service tree / Sorbus torminalis

Shrubs

  • Boxwood / Buxus sempervirens
  • Cherry laurel / Prunus laurocerasus
  • Doghobble / Leucothoe walteri
  • Fortune’s spindle / Euonymus fortunei
  • Greater periwinkle / Vinca major
  • Holly olive / Osmanthus heterophyllus
  • Japanese andromeda / Pieris floribunda
  • Japanese rose / Kerria japonica
  • Japanese Skimmia / Skimmia japonica
  • Japanesespurge / Pachysandra terminalis
  • Laurustinus / Viburnum tinus
  • Lily of the valley / Pieris japonica
  • Oregon grape / Mahonia aquifolium
  • Stinking ash / Ptelea trifoliata
  • Wych alder species / Fothergilla

Climbers

  • Common ivy / Hedera helix
  • Dewberry / Rubus caesius
  • Dutchman’s pipe, Pipevine / Aristolochia macrophylla
  • Fortune’s spindle, Winter creeper / Euonymus fortunei
  • Oriental bittersweet / Celastrus orbiculatus
  • Virginia creeper / Parthenocissus quinquefolia

Conifers

  • English yew / Taxus baccata
  • Western red cedar / Thuja plicata

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